Tag and method of making the same



June 12, 1923.

H. F. SCOTT TAG ANDIMETHOID OF MAKING THE SAME Filed Ju e a, 19 22- /4 ADDRESS NAME Patented June 12, 1923.

UHTED STATE-S.

1,458,445 PATENT QFFICE.

HENRY F. SCOTT, OF FRAMINGHAM, lWASSACI-IUSETTS, ASSIGNOB TO DENNISON MANU- FACTURING COMPANY, OF FRAI'IDINGHAIVI, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

TAG AND METHOD OF MAKING THE Application filed June 8,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY F. Scor'r, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of F ramingham, in the county of .Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Tags and Methods of Making the Same (Case B), of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to of the kind adapted to be attached to a bale, bundle, article of baggage or other storage or shipping package for the usual purposes of affording a place for a shipping direction, identifying the consignee, consignor or owner, or otherwise furnishing u blank for an address, a direction, a number, or other written or printed word, sign or identification character applicable to the package, or, to those from or to whom the package is in transit, or to whom it may belong; and to a method of making such tags.

A principal object of the invention is to improve the relation to the leaf, sheet or body of tag of the means relied upon to attach the tag to the package, bundle or bale to which it is applied,

A further object of the invention is to provide a composite leaf, sheet or surface consisting of an extent of sheet material and a part to receive the attaching means which will serve the purpose of providing a joint or contact of increased resistanceto rupture between the attaching means and the sheet material constituting the tag proper, and which will at the same time provide means for identifying the package, the consignor or the consignee, adapted to be retained by the attaching means if the remainder of the leaf or sheet material constituting the body of the tag shall be defaced ordestroyed. A further object of the invention is to provide a reinforcement for tags in such relation to a flexible filament, wire or cord as to avoid breakage of the attaching filament, separation of the attaching filament from the tag, or both, under strains which would be sufficient to accomplish one or the other or both of these effects if the construction subjected to the strain in question were that of the prior art.

The invention also comprises a'mode of assembling the various parts, and especially of assembling the filamentous attachment 1922. Serial No. 566,835.

and the tag proper, which permits rapid and economical manufacture of the improved tag.

The invention is herein exemplified by one species only having a wire attachment filament and particularly adapted to structures in which the tag is subjectedto rough usage, such as that given the tags attached to cottonbales or to other bagged or baled col n a retained check) in any desired number,

separated by suitable weakened lines 3. The if tag also comprises, whatever the form of the parts 1 and 2, a reinforcement 5 of substantial size at one end of the body 1. Preferably as shown this reinforcement consists of two pieces of paper, paper board, fibre,

laminated'fabric, cloth, or metal attached to opposite faces of the end of the body 1.

The tag is provided with holes 14: punched or otherwise formed through thereinforcements 5 and the bodies 1 of-the tags, and preferably as shown these holesare reinforcedat their edges and'the reinforces 5 are further held in place by metal eyelets 13. Otherwise, the reinforces 5, 5 may be attached to the body of the tag by any suitable glue or cement, or anyother suitable fas toning means. 3 1

The holes 14 are preferably symmetrically disposed with respect to the median longi tudinal axis of the tag, and serve cooperatively to bear or anchor the attachment filament 15, herein shown as a round metal wire; preferably the attachment filament is an annealed copper or bronze wire having high tensile strength and considerable flexibility. I

One of the utilities of the tags herein" described is to provide for the retention of the reinforcement when the body 1 of the tag has been subjected to such rough usage as to tear itaway; and in turn, to provide a reinforcement for the tag of sufiicient size to carry the identifying indicia, for instance, as shown in Fig. 1, the indicia consists of a number also applied to the body 1 of the tag and each of its conpons 2, and, if desired, of the name and address of consignee, or other desired identification. It is old in thear-t to provide a reinforcement longitudinally of the center line of thetag for this purpose liming two holes in it through which the attachment filament is threaded, but I have determined by experiment that when such a tag is subjected to undue strain, the bearings between the attachment filament and the edges of the respective holes through which it is threaded are not subjected evenly to the stress tending to' tear out the filament or to tear the filament out of its attachment to the bale, bundle or package to which it is applied.' The strength of the having the attachment filament anchored in holes lying in the direction of the expected strain is therefore only the strength of the edge of one such hole in relation to the attach- 'ment filament; tearing out can begin at filament and the patch or reinforcement is distributed evenly between at least two bights of the attachment filament and the edges of a'pluralitybfholes, and thus I have increased the effective strength of the engagement between'the attachment filament and the reinforced place on the tag. This is a consequence, referring now to Fig. '1, of the arrangement of the anchorage holes 14 in the reinforced end of the tag transversely t0 the longitudinal axis of the tag along which the ultimate stresses come, when the attachment filament 15 18 so threaded into the holes 14 as to permit such a longitudinal. stress on the tag to be evened or balanced between bights of the attachment filament. I

In. order to accomplish these effects, I prefer to attach the wire filaments 15 to the tag, referring-now to 3, by passing one end A of the wire downwardly through the near hole 13, thence upwardly at e beyond'the top margin of the tag and thence downwardly through the far hole 14. The wire 15 is now putunder sufficient longitudinal strain to bring the bight at 6 down against-the upper margin of the tag, as best shown in. Figs. 1, 2 and 4c, and the wire'ldis then' twisted together as shown at 7', Figs. 1, 2 and 1, to hold the two balanced bights Z) of the wire in relatlon to the tag proper.

In use, assuming the free ends of the Wire 15 to be attached to something and a heavy stress to come on the part 1 of the tag, it will be obvious that the bights b, b, of the wire 15 will tend to equalize the strain between the two bearing vholes or anchorages afforded by the holes 14 and eyelets 13, and that the effect of the b ight 6 will be to transmit a part of this. strain to the upper margin of the tag, tending'to fold or rumple the top of the reinforced part of the tag down toward eyelet 13, if the stress should be so heavy as to begin to destroy any part of the tag. By the described device, the cutting strain exerted by the bights of the attaching wire in their anchorage holes can not exceed one-half of the usual stress when the whole strain is borne by one eyelet hole in the reinforcing patch. So faras I am aware, as heretofore arranged, where there have been a plurality of attachment holes they have been, as mentionedabove, so arranged in respect toeach other and to the attachment wire as to permitthe wire to cut through the edge of one anchorage hole before it'is tightened-against the margin of the other anchorage hole to distribute the strain. The structure herein de scribed prevents tearing out the attachment wire by severally rupturing in succesison the points at which it 'is anchored;

lVhat I claim is:

1. A tag having a body, a plurality of anchorage holes in the body, and an attachment wire threaded successively through one hole, around ,the margin, and-through another hole, whereby toform bearing bights in the respective holes.

A tag having a body, a plurality of anchorage holes in the body, and an attach ment wire threaded "successivelythrough one hole, aroundthe margin, and through another hole, whereby to form bearingbights inthe respective holes, the attachment wire ends being engaged together near the margin of the tag.

3. A tag having a body, a reinforcement,

a plurality of anchorage holes in the body HENRY F; SCOTT. 

